Lennart Regebro

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Jul 21	comment	What was the first supranational organization? And of course, Germany and in some sense, the United States of America. etc, etc etc.
Jul 21	revised	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? edited tags
Jul 21	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? This is not unique in any way. In fact every single leftist group that ever got power has used that power either to grab more power or money, or made the industry richer or created an elite (sometimes after first destroying the elite that was there). Either then, no left exists at all, or NSDAP is a perfect fit for the left. :-) -1
Jul 21	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? First you say "The distinction between right-wing and left-wing is, ultimately, one of fundamental attitudes towards authority and the proper relationship of the individual human being to it." then you go on to point out that both left and right contains people who want to empower individuals and those who want to empower the state, showing that there is no right/left distinction in this case. In fact, the distinction is that the right-wing is called the right-wing and the left-wing is called the left-wing. There is no ideological or political distinction that actually fits global reality.
Jul 21	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? Please not that in large parts of the world "liberal" is considered right wing. Also, a two-axis political map may be twice as good as a one-axis political map, but is still all but useless. To accurately represent the political spectrum you need according to a Swedish political scientist whose name escapes me, 14 dimensions. :-) These two nags prevent me from +1-ing this.
Jul 21	comment	If the nazi is a far-right party, why is it socialist? Nazism considered a far-right party, because the NSDAP clashed with other socialist parties, most notably the communists. As such they ended up being branded "right" because the communists were already branded "left". That the nazi ideology is extremely close to the communist ideology only goes to show how useless "left-right" is as a labelling. It tells you nothing.
Jul 21	comment	Is the claim that Hitler came to power democratically justified? @hrishikeshp19: Yes I can blame the Nazi party for using violence. They did not have to do it at all, it was not about survival, it was about taking power against the wishes of the people, just as it was for the communists, who also used violence. Both groups were wrong. No violence is not the result of an argument, shown by the simple fact that most arguments does not end up in violence. The claim is nonsense. And no, democracy is fundamentally about values and principles, not only majority. That's why we don't use the word "majority" we use "democracy", which means something else.
Jul 7	comment	What is the basis for the claims that the word “Israel” means “Exiled for their sins”? Yeah, I have no problem in that the Bibles claim is just as unfounded as Davidovits. :-)
Jul 6	comment	What is the basis for the claims that the word “Israel” means “Exiled for their sins”? ie, your answer is "There is no basis for the claim". :-)
Jun 4	comment	Hitler's Death: Fact or Fiction @Anixx: You seem to have trouble understanding what we are discussing. I can explain in chat if you like.
Jun 4	comment	Hitler's Death: Fact or Fiction @Anixx: It's also good that you admit that you based something on "a feeling". I didn't.
Jun 3	comment	Hitler's Death: Fact or Fiction @Anixx: It's good that you appreciate that. Also note that I don't know if he lied or not, I'm arguing against your absurd claim that is is unlikely. No, it is very likely. And if you don't believe that, then you know very little about Stalin and Soviet history. The end.
Jun 3	comment	Hitler's Death: Fact or Fiction @Anixx: Nobodu said he never said the truth. But he would of course lie as soon as he suspected that it was beneficial for him. He was at this point not prepared to admit that the Soviets had found Hitlers body, so he lied. Maybe he wasn't sure it was Hitler himself. So what? If you think that's unlikely, you need to read more Soviet history.
Jun 3	comment	Hitler's Death: Fact or Fiction @Anixx: That seems very likely. Stalin lied a lot and murdered a lot of people. It would be almost surprising if he told the truth. I downvoted it because it says "has left the ultimate fate of Hitler a mystery, which will never be truly solved", which is incorrect. It is solved since a long time.
Jun 3	comment	Hitler's Death: Fact or Fiction Of course, today we know the secret Nazi army is at the dark side of the moon.
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Apr 14	comment	Why are many African nations poor? @T.E.D.: Turns out he claims there aren't. Which he does mainly on the fact that they aren't domesticated. Do you for example think that he would claim wolves are domesticatable, if they weren't already? I agree that the size and orientation of Eurasia is relevant, though. He is right there.
Apr 13	comment	Why are many African nations poor? Europe's advantage comes almost uniquely out of being able to suck resources out of an America that was rich on gold and resources, but essentially still in the stone age. That in turn is probably more luck than anything else. :-) As suck we can establish a chain of events, but I can't call that chain of events an explanation of why in any reasonable sense. Jared Diamond has one point: Eurasia goes east-west. Other than that he gets cause and effect backwards. Eurasia has important crops because that's where they were domesticated, not the other way around.
Apr 13	comment	Why are many African nations poor? @T.E.D.: I'm not sure there is an explanation for why. Or at least not one explanation for all of it. But of you have a theory, I'm all ears.
Mar 29	comment	Is the claim that Hitler came to power democratically justified? @RonMaimon: Any serious historian admits that although it's possible or even likely the Nazi's did it, no evidence for that (or against it) exists. hence it is not at all "well known", but rather "generally assumed". Big difference.